15th Jul, 2023 11:00 GMT/BST
British, European & Sporting Art
1200
Attributed to Thomas Spencer (fl.1740-1756)
Lady Caroline held by a groom, Newmarket
Oil on canvas, 82cm by 105.5cm
Provenance: Tennants Newby Hall Sale, 1-4 July, 1985, lot 577
The painting is reputedly to a depiction of the filly bred by William Metcalfe Esq,near Beverley, Yorkshire and sold to the Earl of Portmore.
Lady Caroline was sired by the Duke of Devonshire’s Childers out of the old Snake Mare, the dam of Shock and Squirt. The Old Snake Mare was also the dam of Gay, Brown Russet and Lady Betty, and the grandam of Regulus. She is shown here after winning his Majesty’s Plate of 100 Guineas for five- year old mares run at Newmarket on 20th April 1745.
Auction: British, European & Sporting Art, 15th Jul, 2023
The British, European and Sporting Art Sale at Tennants Auctioneers will see a fine equestrian portrait of ‘Lady Caroline Held by a Groom, Newmarket’ attributed to Thomas Spencer (1700-1763) go under the hammer. It will be joined by notable lots from the Estate of Martin & Felicity Mackintosh of Harrogate, including a rich and plentiful still life of game, fruit and flowers by Hendrik Reekers (1815-1854), and further works by the likes of Ford Madox Brown and William Holman Hunt from the Estate of the late Ian Stephenson of Laithes, Penrith, Cumbria. Other notable lots include Montague Dawson's “HMS Amethyst running the Yangtse Gauntlet, 30th July 1949”.
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